KANO Park. Chiayi City's KANO Park, completed in August 2017, allows everyone to rediscover Chiayi City's proud baseball history. Chiayi City's KANO Park, completed in August 2017, allows everyone to rediscover Chiayi City's proud baseball history. It features an outdoor amphitheater opposite the Family Education Center and a baseball sculpture area with bronze baseball bats and glove-shaped seats. Inlaid stone slabs on the ground feature quotes from the movie "KANO," such as "Papaya trees with no retreat will surely bear plump fruit" and "There are no shortcuts to playing good baseball, only hard practice." The "Baseball Century Avenue," 40 meters wide and 180 meters long, was the path the KANO baseball team used to take to the field. Both the stone slabs on the ground and the baseball celebrity wall on the side meticulously present the origin story of the KANO baseball team, introducing the 16 players who reached the finals of the Koshien tournament. Of course, you can't miss the KANO landscape sphere, weighing 4 tons and with a diameter of 5 meters. Made of aluminum alloy and inlaid with over 120 hollow rings, it shines in the sunlight during the day and puts on a colorful light show at night, offering different charms. It's also a great spot for forced-perspective photography! Whether you want to hold the ball in your hand or playfully kick it, you can capture creative shots from various angles!
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